Cambridge Checkpoint Science Student Book Stage 8

by Collins UK

Overview

Inspire and engage your students with this brand new Lower Secondary Science course from Collins offering comprehensive coverage of the curriculum framework including all suggested practicals and scientific enquiry skills.

- Develop your students’ scientific skills with a strong emphasis on scientific enquiry integrated throughout the course and plenty of opportunities for practical activities and analysis
- Allow students to take ownership of their learning with self-assessment questions and progress checklists throughout
- Support students in their language needs with all key words clearly defined on the relevant page in the student book
- Check understanding, consolidate learning and prepare for assessment with end of chapter and end of stage reviews
- Challenge and stretch your students with differentiated questions for each topic
- Get students engaged with our feature boxes looking at the history and application of science around the world
- Help your students to build a firm foundation and progress from stage 7 through to stage 9 and onto IGCSE Science with carefully developed resources for each stage designed to build confidence and understanding

We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education towards endorsement of this title.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008254667
Publisher:	HarperCollins UK
Publication date:	06/01/2018
Series:	Collins Cambridge Checkpoint Science
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	12 - 14 Years

About the Author

Mark is a freelance author and series editor with over 25 years of experience, specialising in science textbooks and educational materials for schools (for the 11-16 age group). His educational writing career started in the classroom, with the desire to offer students better learning materials. He has worked in many markets around the world, most extensively in the UK and Middle East, and spent the last few years working on projects to support IGCSE and International GCSE curricula.

Table of Contents

How to use this book v

Chapter 1 Obtaining food

1.1 Food from plants 3

1.2 A balanced diet 10

1.3 Malnutrition 18

1.4 Digestion 21

End of chapter review 26

Chapter 2 Respiration and circulation

2.1 Human circulatory system 31

2.2 Human respiratory system 42

2.3 Smoking and health 49

2.4 Transport of water and mineral salts in plants 54

End of chapter review 58

Chapter 3 Reproduction and growth

3.1 Reproductive systems 63

3.2 Puberty 68

3.3 Foetal growth and development 74

3.4 Drugs, disease and diet 79

End of chapter review 84

End of stage review 88

Chapter 4 Elements, compounds and mixtures

4.1 More on changes of state 96

4.2 Gas pressure and diffusion 101

4.3 Atoms, elements and the Periodic Table 106

4.4 Compounds and formulae 110

4.5 Separating mixtures 114

End of chapter review 119

Chapter 5 Metals, non-metals and corrosion

5.1 Metals and non-metals 122

5.2 Corrosion and rusting 129

End of chapter review 134

Chapter 6 Chemical reactions

6.1 Using word equations 138

6.2 Reactions with acid 143

6.3 Reactions with oxygen 148

End of chapter review 152

End of stage review 154

Chapter 7 Light

7.1 Light rays 158

7.2 Reflection 163

7.3 Refraction 168

7.4 Coloured light 172

End of chapter review 179

Chapter 8 Sound

8.1 How sounds are made 183

8.2 How we hear sounds 186

8.3 Loudness and pitch 190

End of chapter review 195

Chapter 9 Measuring motion

9.1 Measuring distance and time 198

9.2 Speed and average speed 201

9.3 Distance-time graphs 205

End of chapter review 209

Chapter 10 Magnets

10.1 Magnets and magnetic materials 213

10.2 Electromagnets 219

End of chapter review 224

End of stage review 227

Periodic Table 230

Glossary 231

Index 240

Acknowledgements 247